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Patient participation

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Mobile health

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MHealth is bringing promising solutions to meet the growing demand for care. With more and more evidence suggesting that the most effective treatment models involve specialized, multi-faceted approaches, and require a variety of materials and effort on both the physician's and patient's end.[1] Mobile applications serve as both a method for increasing health literacy, and as a bridge for patient-physician communication (thus increasing patient participation).[2] There are a broad number of ways to increase participation through the use of web-based and mobile applications. Live videoconferencing appointments have proven effective, especially in the field of mental health, and can be especially significant in providing services to low resource, rural communities.[3] Patient reminders have increased patient participation in attending preventative screenings, and it is possible that similar reminders distributed automatically via web-based applications, such as patient portals, have the potential to provide similar benefits at a potentially lower cost.[4]

To meet this demand for materials, production of patient-centered health applications is occurring at a rapid pace, with estimates of over 100,000 mobile applications available for use already.[2] This boom in production has lead to a developing concern regarding the amount of research and testing the application undergoes before going live, while others see promise in patient's having greater access to treatment materials.[2] Some of that concern includes whether or not the patient will continue to use the mobile application specific for their treatment needs over time.[2]

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  2. ^ a b c d Baysari, M. T.; Westbrook, J. I. (2015-08-13). "Mobile Applications for Patient-centered Care Coordination: A Review of Human Factors Methods Applied to their Design, Development, and Evaluation". Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 10 (1): 47–54. doi:10.15265/IY-2015-011. ISSN 0943-4747. PMC 4587034. PMID 26293851.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link)
  3. ^ Chan, Steven Richard; Torous, John; Hinton, Ladson; Yellowlees, Peter (2014-05-06). "Mobile Tele-Mental Health: Increasing Applications and a Move to Hybrid Models of Care". Healthcare. 2 (2): 220–233. doi:10.3390/healthcare2020220. ISSN 2227-9032. PMC 4934468. PMID 27429272.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  4. ^ Lewis, Kristopher; Reicher, Murray A. "Web Applications for Patient Communication". Journal of the American College of Radiology. 13 (12): 1603–1607. doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2016.09.013.